IT’S AS IF ALL THAT HUMAN-RIGHTS CONCERN WAS JUST PARTISAN HACKERY: Liberals ignore Obama’s Guantanamos: The same people who excoriated Bush’s war on terror are letting Obama do as he pleases.

Let me be clear: All you people who were playing the have-you-no-decency card under Bush, but who aren’t screaming just as loud now — which is pretty much all of you people who were playing the have-you-no-decency card under Bush — were and are miserable lying hacks. And I thank Obama for making that perfectly clear, at least.

THE HILL: Sen. Grassley demands additional ‘Fast and Furious’ documents.

Less than one week after the House voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding additional information from the Justice Department regarding the botched “Fast and Furious” gun-tracking operation.

On Tuesday, Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary committee, sent a letter to Holder questioning who within the Justice Department knew of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) memorandum reportedly circulated one day prior to the DOJ denying allegations of sanctioned “gunwalking” to lawmakers.

I don’t think the stonewalling is going to work.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Has Higher Education Become An Engine of Inequality? Why would you expect a system composed of academics — who are the most exquisitely status-conscious people on Earth — to reduce inequality?

SOME GOOD NEWS: European Parliament’s Rejection of ACTA Demonstrates Again the Power of Digital Activism.

JOHN NOLTE: Media, Obama Coordinate Romney Smear With Pro-Occupier’s ‘Vanity Fair’ Article.

JOURNALISM: Humiliation Of Ex-Politico WH Correspondent Joe Williams Complete, As Ex-Wife Weighs In.

TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE: Against the Hippies: Or, In Defense of American Individualism. “The Germany of the Third Reich could have done with a bit more American individualism, and so could Mao’s China. So, for that matter, could the hippies of Woodstock, whose deconstruction of proper individualism unleashed the natural tendencies to selfishness and materialism (a selfishness and materialism that ultimately triumphed over the sixties economic program) and who promoted a political philosophy that actually sublimated (oppressed) the individual to the detriment of the civic good.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): San Diego Man Stranded in Bahrain After Being Put On No-Fly List.

WHERE’S OBAMA? More than 1 million in U.S. still without power five days after storm.

THEY TOLD ME IF WE ELECTED BARACK OBAMA. . . .

Actual background here.

DAVID FORSMARK: The Seven Most Badass Founding Fathers.

Quincy, Illinois. Taken with the Panasonic Lumix LX-3.

SOME REDCOATS SHOWED UP AT THE LAKE PARTY TODAY, but we just handed ’em a beer. At this point, Americans can afford to be magnanimous on the Fourth.

WE NOW LIVE IN THE ERA OF Anti-Satan Hate Crimes.

BOOSTING TEST SCORES with more weeks in the womb. “On both reading and math exams, where a score of 50 was considered average, kids born at 41 weeks scored about one point higher, in general, than those born at 37 weeks, the researchers reported Monday in Pediatrics.”

AT AMAZON, bestselling books on survival skills.

Harriman, Tennessee. Happy Fourth of July!

SPENGLER: A National Anthem That Begins And Ends With A Question.

GALLERY: 10 Of The World’s Most Impressive Paper Planes.

FASTER, PLEASE: T-cell Vaccines Could Treat Elusive Diseases.

ED DRISCOLL: Beyond The Theory of Moral Relativity.

TODAY’S KINDLE DAILY DEAL: Independence, by John Ferling, for $1.99.

Farragut, Tennessee. Happy Fourth of July!

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Reasons to Answer that Booty Call. I thought there was, you know, basically just one reason. . . .

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why did the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bother to deny the existence of mermaids?

From the comments: “Can Mermaids be taxed if they do not exist? John Roberts may say YES!”

UPDATE: Rand Simberg writes: “What’s NOAA going to tell us next, that Anderson Cooper is gay?”